Famous Quotes & Sayings

The matches have been so close and tensely fought that people not only in England but in other cricket playing nations are totally involved in its outcome.

They've always remained close to Van Wert. They'll come to town and visit us, and visit the Y. Brenda has always kind of kept her finger on things here in Van Wert.

Gaston Gaudio

For me, it would be better if I can reach a few rounds or if I can win a couple of rounds here to get into the Masters or even to be like close over there, but I didn't do anything.

It's too close and it creates a real potential for conflict of interest.

There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it.

There were a few close matches where we might have been able to pull out a win, but we just didn't match-up that well with Connellsville. Everyone wrestled tough and it's always good to see how you stack up with the top teams.

It's a test for our young women to see how they can compete and to learn from the experience that they are going to have tomorrow. There's not one person on our trip that thinks that we don't have to play well to even stay close as long as we can.

It was a shame to to close the year with a performance like this.

We probably relied a little too much on the threes. But even when we got close in, we had some shots rim out. We still take a lot of positives knowing that we got outscored 15-1 in the second quarter and the final (deficit) was 15.

We probably got away with a few misses on open shots tonight. We made a lot of big shots when they got close tonight, which helped us quite a bit.

We opened the second half on an 8-0 run and we're down two points, 27-25. And it strayed close like that throughout. Entering the fourth quarter, we're down four. They went into their patented delay; we ran out of gas. We just couldn't get the lead.

Toby Keith

I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it's very, very close to my house, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses 'cause I love horses and it's my hobby.

Sela Ward

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.

Tony Tan

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Virginia Postrel

Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors.

Ansel Elgort

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

We started strong in the first quarter. In that last quarter, we could not make our free throws and lost our composure. It was a real good, close game.

Robert McCullum

We're going to get one. I'm proud of the fact that we continue to come close and close and close and our players continue to have that hunger to get one." ()

Mary Matalin

What he did was not an irrational thing. This was a very close friend this happened to. Everyone was shaken up about it. When I spoke to him, it was all about Harry, worrying about him.

Our guys just stepped up and hit some free throws at the end. We've been so close so many times, it was good to see us finally pull one out.

Overall, we played pretty good. I think we battled. We've lost a lot of close games this year.

Our top 3 teams all made it into the round of 32 but all of them lost in that round, and a couple of them had really close matches.

Steven Pinker

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

To be that close to the horse thundering past you and jumping those impressive-looking obstacles ... it can be exciting. Dare I say it, even thrilling.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Will Estes

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group.

Emily Meade

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

Pete Best

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.

Richard Lewis

I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.

Larry Davis

We'll see how he feels and see what we can do Friday. Tomorrow is a no-throw day. This was a very happy day though. He's close to his normal velocity, and we went out with the idea he would throw at a level where he felt comfortable.